EARLY BLACK AMERICAN POETS: Selections with Biographical and Critical Introductions
by Robinson, William H., editor
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- first
- Condition
- Very good in stiff illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name, some rubbing to the covers.)
- ISBN 10
- 0697039536
- ISBN 13
- 9780697039538
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Dubuque, Iowa: : Wm [William] C. Brown Company, Publishers,, (1969.). First edition -. Very good in stiff illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name, some rubbing to the covers.). First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. An important anthology arranged by type of poetry,rather than strictly chronologically - includes a generous selection of poems from most of the writers. Forms of poetry include "orator poets" (Lucy Terry, Jupiter Hammon, Gustavas Vassa, George Moses Horton, Frances E.W. Harper and others), formalist poets (Phillis Wheatley, Ann Plato, George Marion McLlelan, and Henrietta Cordelia Ray) ; romantic poets (John Boyd, Benjamin Clark, Joseph Seamen Cotter, several Creole poets, and others) and dialect poets (James Edwin Campbell, Daniel Webster Davis, Elliott B. Henderson, J. Mord Allen and James B. Carrothers.) Includes a general introduction by Robinson, several appendices, bibliography, index. xvii, 275 pp.
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- Title
- EARLY BLACK AMERICAN POETS: Selections with Biographical and Critical Introductions
- Author
- Robinson, William H., editor
- Format/Binding
- First edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in stiff illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name, some rubbing to the covers.)
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0697039536
- ISBN 13
- 9780697039538
- Publisher
- Wm [William] C. Brown Company, Publishers,
- Place of Publication
- Dubuque, Iowa:
- Date Published
- (1969.)
- Keywords
- anthology, Lucy Terry, Jupiter Hammon, Frances E.W. Harper , Phillis Wheatley, Ann Plato, George Marion McLlelan, and Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Joseph Seamen Cotter, Creole poets, Negro dialect poets, James Edwin Campbell, Daniel Webster Davis, Elliott B.
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American Poetry;
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